News
Te Papa & what should the story of NZ
in 2.5 million objects look like?
NMA buys NZ thylacine skin with
National Cultural Heritage Account support
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography
from 1857 to 1893 opens February 16
US Federal shutdown impact on museum
workers (& their work)
US museums double in # since 1990
– how to compete with museum fatigue?
OM sprinkler system progressing
to address fire risk to 1.5M collns
NSW Arts Min launches global competition
for Parramatta Powerhouse Precinct design
ANMM’s HMB Endeavour $6.7M
AG funding for 39 stop circumnavigation
MV & CSIRO observe evolutionary explosion
in Antarctic sea-life
Cultural Attractions of Australia launch
– new global tourism initiative
National Cultural Institutions impact
– 2017-18 infographics
AM’s Climate Change commitments 2019-2021
developing a leadership role
Tim Flannery home as AM Distinguished
Visiting Fellow focussed on climate change
NMA show 360 3D VR Antarctica Experience
Mat Trinca hears The Song of the Earth
Beauty isn’t explained by science
but science needs to understand beauty
Alice National Indigenous Art Gallery
loses support of ‘key traditional owners’
QVMAG progress structured plan, process &
framework to contextualise Whiteley search
NSW ALP commits to Powerhouse remaining
at Ultimo & to new museum at Parramatta
CM’s sees visits top 800,000 due to
exhibition content & increasing tourism
MAPDA entry open 1 Feb closes 11 Mar 2019
Judging: Late March
Tony Grybowski to lead Arts SA plan development
extensive consultation planned
Creative NZ focus on arts & culture
in Aotearoa Tourism Strategy submission
12 Questions: AWMM’s David Gaimster
Scala Director’s Choice Auckland Museum
SHMA strengthens China links
to address changing market
2018’s trend in exhibitions:
reuniting collections
2018’s acquistions for public collections
10 significant gifts & purchases
TAN & M&H Advisor guides to 2019
new museum openings & expansions
Jerusalem Museum’s ‘Finds gone astray’
Bible Lands Museum’s provenance & law
Museo del Prado at 200: Miguel Falomir on
reinvention & the death of the blockbuster
AM’s T. rex opening at NM Edinburgh in 2020
Fossils, casts and models on display for first time in Europe